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Ontario Tourism Region : Northwest Ontario
Description From Owner:
- Pop. 2,499. In Ignace T., Kenora Dist., on the N shore of Agimak L. and Hwy 17, 107 km SE of Dryden.
- The place was first recorded by Sir Sandford Fleming as a station on the proposed route of the CPR's transcontinental line. It was named by the railway builder after his guide, Ignace Mentour, who led a cross-Canada survey expedition in 1872.
- The first house was built in 1875. First Nations Peoples settled around it to provide services for surveyors and railroad workers. The first European settler was Albert McGillie in 1879.
- The area's first mining patent was granted to Capt. S. V. Halstead in 1889. He established the Maple Leaf Gold Mining Co. and opened the Black Fox Mine.
- The gold rush of the 1890s brought many prospectors, and Ignace became headquarters for the U.S. Gold Mining Company. At one time, a large settlement of railway boxcars nearby was nicknamed Little England because of its many English residents.
- On White Otter L., 25 km S (by boat or float plane) is a four-story log 'castle' built single handedly of one-ton (1.016 tonne) logs by diminutive James Alexander McQuat.
- How he managed to erect the structure between 1903, when he was 57, and 1912, baffles today's engineers.
Map Below gives Canadian Geographical Names
Natural Resources Canada in the District of Kenora.
Natural Resources Canada in the District of Kenora.
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